Bug update

The caterpillar is starting to enter the larva stage. He's still hanging in there on my garage door.

Weird Bug

This deserves to go on both blogs. I have no idea what this thing is. It was on my garage door yesterday evening. If anyone knows what this is, please post it in the comments.

UPDATE: The folks at the University of Kentucky Department of Entomology say it's a Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio Troilus) and pointed me to this page. This caterpillar is usually bright green but turns yellow for only a few days before it pupates. Its false eyespots and other markings help protect it by making it look like a small snake to predators (especially when it is green).

Slow Posting

I haven't been posting much on here lately, because most of the posts have been over at my other blog that I'm trying to update every day. (Or at least take a photo every day and post them whenever I get a chance).

Flower details

The Ocean

ISO 200/ f29/ 2.0 second exposure with ND 8 filter.

Swimmers

Japanese Beetle

Not to try and blatantly copy this post by Rick Lee, but I saw this Japanese beetle in my yard yesterday evening and couldn't help but try my own pic of one. We always referred to these guys as June bugs, but I guess those are actually something different.

World's Nicest Parking Garage

We were at Miami (Ohio) University for a swim meet this weekend, which is a beautiful campus. The building in the background is actually a parking garage. You can see more pics here.

Maggie

A very big, yet very friendly, dog.

Silver Surfer

A cool display in the lobby of the Pullman Square theater in Huntington, W.Va.

Say What?

Does anyone know what this means? Seen on the back of a truck on U.S. 60 near Grayson, Ky. Click on the photo for a larger version.

Open Spaces

Wet Step

Problems capturing color

This is from Tuesday when I spent a great amount of time trying to figure out why the color in these two images look so dramatically different from two different cameras when they had the exact same settings (ISO, White balance, shutter speed, and aperture). The one from the much less expensive Canon Digital Rebel is actually the correct color, but for some reason, when I use a blue gel on a black background, my Nikon D100 captures it as purple. If anyone out there has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Bird on a Jaguar

I posted this on my other blog as well, but thought I'd put it here, too. Wonder what this bird is thinking?

Honeysuckle

More flowers

...more from my mother-in-law's in Greenup County, Ky.

Ants

These are a couple of shots I took at my mother-in-law's on Sunday. She lives on a farm in Greenup, Ky., and has tons of flowers, so the place is a photo goldmine. I'll post some more of my shots from there later, but for now here's a couple of close-ups of ants crawling on some of the flowers that are about to bloom.

Neat effect

This photo of an award sitting in a mirrored case looks pretty neat because of the type effect. Normally, in a reflection, the type is reversed, but the mirror is picking up the back of the glass (which is also reversed) so the reflection shows the text correctly again. Little things like that amuse me, I guess.

Shiny New Building